Bootsy Collins is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. Bootsy played with James Brown in the late 1960s (starting when he was 17), and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins' driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk.
Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in Bootsy Collins bass rig.
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Bass Guitars
- Custom Space Bass (built by Larry Pless)
- custom F Bass
Amps and Cabinets
- two Crown Micro 5000 and 3600 power amps
- Crown 300 power amp (in the past)
- eight custom-made cabinets with Electro-Voice speakers: two 4x18s, two 4x15s, and four 8x10s
Effects and More
- Alembic F2-B preamp
- Alembic Super Filter
- Mu-Tron III envelope filter
- Morley Wah/Fuzz
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff distortion
- Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff
- Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
- Electro-Harmonix Talking Machine (he was demoing this on an EHX video)
- Oberheim Echoplex
- Mu-Tron Octave Divider
- MXR Digital Delay
- Roland Space Echo
- Pro Co Rat II
- DOD Thrash
- DigiTech Grunge
- DigiTech Whammy Pedal
- Boss BF-3 Flanger
- DOD Envelope
- Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer
- Snarling Dogs Bootzilla Bootsy Collins Signature Bass Wah with Fuzz Pedal
- Korg AX3000B
- Korg G5 synth bass processor
- Korg Karma, a TRITON Extreme and RADIAS keyboards
Strings
- signature BOOTZILLAS bass strings by DR Strings
